I need to filter unwanted characters out of from a string like this:
[code] Dim text As String = “hello world!”
Dim allowedChars As String = “1234567890 abcdefghijklmno?!$¥-_+,;()[]{}«»/\*.<>”
Dim finalMessage As String
Dim arrayedChars(-1) As String = allowedChars.Split("")
For Each char As String In text.Split("")
If arrayedChars.IndexOf(char) > -1 Then
finalMessage = finalMessage + char
End If
Next
msgBox finalMessage[/code]
This works fine, but I wonder if Xojo already has a built-in feature to do the same in a more efficient way.
[code] Dim text As String = "hello world! "
Dim allowedChars As String = “1234567890 abcdefghijklmno?!$-_+,;()[]{}/\*.<>”
Dim finalMessage As String = text
for i as integer = 32 to 5000 //Unicode code points
if instr(allowedChars,chr(i)) = 0 then
finalMessage = ReplaceAll(finalMessage,chr(i),"")
end if
next
msgbox finalMessage
[/code]
Note that since allowedChars does not contain H or W and r, the result is “ello old!”
[quote=123568:@Walter Sander]ReplaceAll could assist me with replacing undesired characters like “á” to “a” etc, yes, one by one.
However I find the .ConvertEncoding(Encodings.ASCII) much better.
Karma is a b . . . c h :p[/quote]
These are not the same at all. ConvertEncoding is used to make a string compatible with a particular environment, and you can remove accents with it.
But from you first code, it seemed you wanted to allow some characters and not others. I added accented characters to my example to take into account higher Unicode code points.
ReplaceAll should be faster than looking at every character, especially on long strings. Hello World is a bit short…
I am dealing with short strings yes, less than 1024 bytes, thus the performance shall not be an issue. Jeremy is probably replying part of my initial post I deleted. Anyway …
I am now trying to revert “bc” I send from a Javascript websocket client (a), to my PHP websockets server (b), and this server is echoing back to all clients. Xojo is one of those clients (b).
This is what I get:
The Javascript client shows correct data but Xojo doesn’t
I will do some tests
